BioWare is laying off 50 people

This sucks so bad. Love her work and that they lay of the senior? writer of Dreadwolf is no a good sign. Man this sucks.

Them axing Mary Kirby is pretty much a coffin nail for me.

All I can really say is that this does not bode well for the future of the project and that I hope Mary Kirby is snapped up by another studio immediately to work on something I want to play. Can't imagine a Dragon Age project without her, but I guess we'll have to.

So fans have overfocused on writers losing their jobs, afterall.
Also I'm surprised nobody posted the Jeff Grubb report yet, as he states ME team devs have been moved to fill in lost DA team gaps.

No, you are just being deeply bad faith at interpreting my comments.

Now specifics and context will vary from case to case and the long term effects of this case are probably not going to see the consequences of this particular decision for a long time to come. But the basics of the logic is still rather sound. Teams can still be too large and unwieldy. Too bloated. Too many indians and not enough chiefs as well as the vice versa. So large where effective decision making is made a lot more complicated and thus things get harder to do, harder to communicate these decisions through an entire team and then get feedback. Hell now that I'm thinking about it I think Mark made a video which at least touched on this subject. So a larger team can be just as much of a problem for these companies as having a small team, and corporate speak or no, a smaller team can be more responsive, reactive, and creative, as a larger one. 
I've never really thought that this overly melodramatic argument is especially effective or helpful to any debate. 

BioWare still exists and they will continue to do so for the forseable future. Indeed since the 'corporate speak' has reaffirmed their commitment to both Dragon Age and Mass Effect moving forward then this still means they have years still. As for the team there have been several people which have been there for years and reprsent the 'old guard'. Fewer and fewer, sure, but BioWare still has people in key leadership positions which have been with the company as long as Mary Kirby. Leadership which will continue to ensure some continuity as they train the next generation, hopefully, of BioWare devs and continue to ensure the companies standars remain. 

Which while it does suck for the specific people involved we were going to lose Mary Kirby eventually. People retire and people move on from companies all the time or are laid off. Mary Kirby isn't BioWare, BioWare is BioWare and given how much I enjoyed Andromeda and even Anthem having some BioWare staples in it I'm not that concerned by the loss of any one dev. At least not yet. Though a lot will depend on how much these people will be able to pass onto the next generation.

Ehhh it's more of the old guard getting laid off rather than Bioware being "gone" but it's still sad to see. 

For some of us, BioWare was the old guard who gave it heart and soul. As more of the old guard now get carved away and cast aside as if garbage after 20+ years of writing some of our most beloved characters such as Varric... then, yes, for those of us who loved THAT BioWare, that version of it is slowly dying/gone.

As much as you ask for people to understand you, it would be pleasurable if you would try to understand where others are coming from as well.